Re: Evangelize the world with Org-mode

[Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org>]

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There already is Worg for wiki and pdf generation is already a core  
function of org-mode.
Not sure if i'm missing something here or not.


On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Scot Becker wrote:

> Sebastien,
>
> I don't think any of this is crazy.
>
>  The first idea is similar to the HTML composition GUIs which now  
> seem to be everywhere.  I'm told it's a pretty complex task to get  
> them to reliably be both WYSISYG and to maintain syntactically  
> correct markup through multiple edits, but people are attempting  
> it---with some success for HTML and BBcode.
>
> Could org-syntax be used in a Wiki? I suppose so with some elisp or  
> scripting infrasturcture.  In fact, such an idea is has potential to  
> help with other problems as well, such as making simple changes to  
> your server-stored org-documents when at a non-emacs machine or a  
> simple web-enabled device like a smartphone.   I imagine that the  
> overhead of processing org-markup to html via Emacs is high-ish in  
> comparision with traditonal ways of generating html from other  
> markup languages.   But with static pages and mostly internal use,  
> that should be no issue.
>
> Look at this link for an example of online PDF generation.  In this  
> case it's from another lightweight markup language called  
> ReStructured Text, and uses pdflatex on a server to automatically  
> generate pdf's.
>
> http://rst2a.com/
>
> If they can do it.....
>
> Scot
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